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April 13, 2018|Swann News|Photographs & Photobooks

A Walker Evans Print, The Only One of Its Kind

The cover lot of our April 19 auction, The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks is the only known extant print of Walker Evans’s graphic silver print, River Rouge Plant, Detroit, Michigan…

March 30, 2018 | African-American Fine Art

William Johnson’s Jitterbugs

Two extremely scarce prints from William H. Johnson’s Jitterbugs series will make their auction debut with African-American Fine Art on April 5. The series was conceived and executed during Johnson’s tenure in New York…

October 2, 2017 | African-American Fine Art

Four Unique Works by Charles White Debut at Auction

The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White that have never before appeared at auction. We spoke to our…

May 10, 2017 | Contemporary Art

East Hampton Artists

The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who…

August 1, 2016 | Vintage Posters

Tadanori Yokoo: Pop Visionary

Among the works representing the second half of the twentieth century in our upcoming August 3 Vintage Posters sale are two works by the graphic artist and designer Tadanori Yokoo, who has been…

Camille Pissarro, Paysanne assise, les Pieds dans l'Eau

April 22, 2016 | Old Master Through Modern Prints

Prints About Town: Three Exhibitions and an Auction

If you can’t get enough of the material coming up in our two-part auction of Old Master through Modern Prints, featuring A Collector’s Vision: Works on Paper from the Belle Époque…

September 30, 2010 | African-American Fine Art

Defying Folk Art: Edmondson’s and Evans’s Fine Art

Our October 7th African-American Fine Art auction features two exceptional works of folk art, a type of art not typically included in these sales. North Carolina artists William Edmondson and…